LABOUR UNREST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15482, 13 December 1913, Page 8

LABOUR UNREST.

SHIPPING SERVICES, BOATS FROM AUSTRALIA. MANUKA TO SAIL. . BUTTER FOR VANCOUVER. ARRIVALS NEXT WEEK. In view of the present disorganised stato of tho passenger and cargo services between Australia and Now Zealand, some , important announcements have been made by tho Union Company It was announced on Thursday that it had been decided to despatch the steamer Willochra from Sydney for Auckland, way ports, and Vancouver, in place of the Makura, but this arrangement has now been cancelled. Tho Makura will bo despatched from. Sydney on Thursday afternoon noxt, threo days later than contract lime. The liner is expected to reach Auckland on Sunday evening, December 21, in time to berth and commence loading at midnight. She will lift a large quantity of cargo at Auckland, including over 22,000 boxes of butter, which will be the largest consignment of this product yet despatched from Now Zealand for .Vancouver by one steamer. It is anticipated that loading operations will be completed in timo to despatch the vessel late on Monday night, December 22, for Suva, Honolulu, and Vancouver. It lias been definitely settled that the Manuka will make the trip from Sydney to Auckland next week, in place of tho Maheno, which is now laid up at the New South Wales port. The Manuka was announced as sailing to-day, but the arrangement was subsequently cancelled. The fact that she will now make tho trip would indicate tl.n,t a large number of passengers aro anxious to return to New Zealand from Australia. Tho Manuka should sail on Monday afternoon, and should arrive hero on Friday morning, December 19. She will bo tho first passenger steamer to arrive from Sydney since tho Maheno reached port on Wednesday, December 3. Tho .Manuka will be despatched on the return voyage to Sydney direct on Saturday ovening, December 20. According to cable advice received by the Union Company, the R.M.S. Niagara, which left Vancouver on the afternoon of Wodnesday, November 26, for way ports, Auckland, and Sydney, is expected to arrive at Suva at 4 p.m. to-day. The liner is running somewhat later than schedule time, which is attributed to her meeting with heavy weather shortly after clearing the Canadian port. The Niagara is expected to leave Suva at midnight to-night for Auckland, and should therefore arrive hero on Tuesday evening next. She lias on board over 600 first, second, and third class passengers for New Zealand and Australia, together with European, American, and Canadian mails, and 1220 tons of general merchandise for New Zealand. Tho vessel is now timed to sail at 5 p.m. on Wednesday next, for Svdney, where sho is due on Sunday, December 21. Although there are very few vessels at present in port with cargo on board, a large number will arrive next week, as, in addition to th e steamers already named, two large oversea vessels are due. These will be the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Whakatane, which is due on Tuesday from Montreal and Australian ports, and the Tyeer liner Indrapura, which is also due on that day from London and Australian ports. The Whakatane has 800 tons and the Indrapura 3600 tons of cargo to discharge. The Union Company's steamer Talun 0 is due this morning from tho Cook and Society Minds with fruit and general cargo, and the Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross is expected this evening from Sydney and Norfolk Island, after an absence of over seven months. Un Monday the Waitomo is duo from the Bluff, Duiiedin Oamaru, and Timani with a full cargo of produce, while the Kamona is also due on that day from Wellington with fresh and dried fruit transhipments from San Francisco. She will be followed later in the week by the Katoa, which is to bring the balance of the fruit shipments. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion liner Connthic, which has been in port for several days loading butter, cheese, and other product* for London, is to sail for ' Wellington this evening, where she completes her Homeward loading. The < Japanese steamer Kwanto Maru has dis- 1 charged 5500 tons of Newcastle coal at 1 the King's Wharf during the past week, i She sails, to-day .for Newcastle. J The council of the Auckland Chamber , of Commerce yesterday passed a vote of i thanks to the Mayor (.Mr. C. J. Parr) the chairman of the Harbour Board (Mr ' J. H. Gunson), and the special constables ! mounted and foot, for their services m connection with the recent industrial ( trouble.

SEMPLE IN COURT.

SEDITIOUS LANGUAGE ALLEGED. HEARING ON WEDNESDAY. The organiser of the United Federation of Labour, Robert Sample, was charged at tho Police Court yesterday that at Auckland, on October 30, he did, in the \vccsei\ce and hearing of a largo iuisa.l\« <j( persons, speak certain seditious words, to wit: — " I have word through from Wellington that they used their batons on the workers I there to-night, and they discovered the 1 workers could hit as hard as they could. But the workers got the best of it in I Wellington to-night. They showed that they could club when they were clubbed. And wo can do the same if they uso .violence. We also will club them as they club us. _ We do not want to do this. God forbid! The prison walls can settle no disputes for us. Tho only way to I settle theso industrial problems is by calm 1 raxfentag mA )\\A.%\mA. W& \»\\ toy m best we can to avoid bloodshed and settle our difficulty without spilling one drop «i blood. Bloodshed wins no argument. "They might want all their reserve ol strength. But I say to you that we an not going to accept violence, and ever} worker should have something more in hi.' possession than his naked fists. If it is lawful to issue 1100 batons wherewith t< attack the workers, jt is equally lawfu for tho workers to have batons to prote^ themselves. These people have batons t( club you, and I ask you. for the defence o . your characters, of your manhood, of yom *' vwea and families, to ho realty to (M I them hack again." J Semple was further charged that on tin I same date he did incite divers persons t(

resist or assault police constables in thi ™*« Vwjii vV»iV?, wii Wtoer ftia ho did promote or encourage divers persons 10 urauft or resist constables an. pointed wider the Justices of Hie Peace -Act, in the execution of their duty. Mr. Hall Skclton appeared for' the accused, and the Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C. for tli* police. '' As it was intimated that the hearing .of the case would probably last for a whole day, a remand was granted. When the question of bail was referred to, Mr I Skehon suggested that, as the accused was | already under bail to the sum of £4000, , the bail fixed might bo merely a nominal i sum. ' \ Vet. C-trtten- Wial is he unfler bail tor?] I Mr. Skelton: Oh, various tilings. I ■j. >Al\ft as&oxaacG of Mr. Skelton s Una accHSftd [ was placed on his honour to appear whei 1 TeinriTtfj.'Yifc W&& wX xqipiic; rjfp tion. aTI (H Tb.o Court acted according no fuvtlv %q bail being required. The hearing oi V. , 1 case- was fixed for Wednesday nest,